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Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy
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TITLE: TIE V-38 Assault Fighter
AUTHOR: Inyri Forge
E-MAIL: inyriforge@gmail.com

FILENAME: tie_v38.pk3
FILESIZE: 2 mb
DATE RELEASED: 20 December 2005
BUILD TIME: 1 Week

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MODEL SPECS
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Polycount: 1759
Triangles: 1847
LOD Support: No

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CREDITS
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Credit to Raven, for more reasons than one. Specifically, though, I borrowed a couple of textures, most notably the base wing texture. I felt no need to reproduce it by hand when it was given to me.

Thanks to minilogoguy18 for helping every five minutes in the completion of this, my first vehicle model. Without him I would've given up days ago. Thanks for putting up with my fits, and thanks for helping me get everything running smoothly!

Thanks to my beta testers. minilogoguy18, Trauma Sensei.

Of course shoutouts go to my forumers, for support as usual, and a big thumbsdown to all the flamers out there. Go away. We don't like you.

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INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS
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Dump this is your gamedata/base directory within your Jedi Academy directory.

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DESCRIPTION
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A lot of you, as I know, don't have a clue what this fighter is or where it came from. It was originally from an early Star Wars game, Rebel Assault II, made in 1995. It's actually a pretty good game, but the fighter always made me drool and I've been semi-obsessed with it ever since. Several good models have been made for X-wing Alliance, but I decided Jedi Academy needed one too, and the current model of it is just so insufferably inaccurate that it made want to pull all of my hair out and donate it to the bald.

V-38 and Phantom variations are included (see comments section for more information on the special features of the Phantom variation).

This TIE, classified as an assault fighter due to its heavy weaponry, shields, and hyperdrive, has a three-pronged wing arrangment. It sports three wing-tip laser cannons and two chin-mounted cannons, generally used as ion cannons. Its hyperdrive is outfitted such that it can make only a few short jumps if need be. During one of Lord Vader's failed campaigns, a modified version of this fighter, called the TIE Phantom, was put into mass production. This fighter, while less powerful in armory, had the added bonus of a fully functional cloaking system which rendered it next to invisible to most scanners. Before the TIEs could reach their full potential, however, two Rebel agents destroyed the production facility the TIEs were being produced at. All of these Phantom TIEs were believed to be destroyed.

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VEHICLE SPAWN INFORMATION
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The command to spawn the TIE V-38 is as follows:

npc spawn vehicle tie_v38

OR

npc spawn vehicle tie-v38

The command to spawn the TIE PHANTOM mode is as follows:

npc spawn vehicle tie_phantom

OR

npc spawn vehicle tie-phantom

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BUGS
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No bugs that I've found so far.

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COMMENTS
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I did include both V-38 and Phantom variations. The models are the same, but the Phantom has a FULLY FUNCTION CLOAK**, and only uses the two chin cannons as laser cannons. It also has more powerful shields, and is slightly slower than the V-38 (likely due to the cloaking device adding mass, etc etc). This slowness is negligible, however, as you'll still be way faster than most other fighters.

Now read this part carefully. If you come to me complaining the cloaking device doesn't work I'm going to shake my head at you for not reading down this far. Tsk tsk. The cloak will not work in BaseJA. You *must* have, and be using, Open Jedi Project. Just the basic release seems to work fine. The most recent version (as of this read-me) can be found here: http://jediknight2.filefront.com/file/Open_Jedi_Project_Basic;52934

Once you  have the OJP assets in your base, simply use your USE FORCE key to activate the cloak. Be warned, though, that you can not fire while cloaked. As soon as you fire a weapon you will become visible again.

**When I say "fully functional", I mean that it cloaks you. It does not, however, turn notarget on or anything like that, so it will only really be affective in player vs. player combat. In levels like Deathstar Trench or Siege Destroyer, the turbolasers will still be able to target you.

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DISTRIBUTION NOTES
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You may not redistribute this file or any material contained within it any form without my express permission. If permission is given, this read-me must be included. It's not like I bite, so don't be afraid to ask. I'm not going to say 'no' unless your mod is a complete disgrace to the world, and there aren't many of those out there ;)


THIS MODIFICATION IS NOT MADE, DISTRIBUTED, OR SUPPORTED BY ACTIVISION, RAVEN, OR
LUCASARTS ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY LLC. ELEMENTS TM & © LUCASARTS
ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY LLC AND/OR ITS LICENSORS.